• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    28 days ago

    Open source repositories should rely on p2p. Torrenting repos is the way I think.

    Not only for this. At any point m$ could take down your repo if they or their investors don’t like it.

    I wonder if it would already exist and if it could work with git?

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      28 days ago

      Torrenting doesn’t deal well with updating files.
      And you have another problem: how do you handle bad actors spamming the download ?
      That’s probably why github does that.

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        28 days ago

        That’s true. I didn’t think of that.

        IPFS supposedly works fine with updating shares. But I don’t want to get closer to that project as they had fallen into cryptoscam territory.

        I’m currently reading about “radicle” let’s see what the propose.

        I don’t get the bad actors spamming the download. Like downloading too much? Torrent leechers?

        EDIT: Just finished by search sbout radicle. They of course have relations with a cryptomscam. Obviously… ;_; why this keep happening?

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          27 days ago

          There’s literally nothing about crypto in radicle from my reading, cryptography and crypto currency are not synonymous.

          Ah because they also have a different project for a crypto payment platform for funding open source development.

          Edit again: it seems pretty nifty actually, why do you think it’s a scam? Just because crypto?